On Thursday, August 29, 2019 at 9:28:05 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > > Ito be honest, I have no clue what you mean by “natural number do not > exist”. I can understand that they don’t exist physically, but with > Mechanism, we know that “physical existence” is not a criterium for being > fundamentally real. Physical existence is phenomenologically real. > > Bruno > > *Natural numbers do not exist* in the way of Fieldian nominalistic semantics.
*Science without numbers* (Hartry Field, 1980) http://www.thatmarcusfamily.org/philosophy/Course_Websites/Readings/Field%20-%20SWN%20selections.pdf x-2=0 produces x=2 via theorem provers, logic programming systems, etc. executing on real machines. @philithrift -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/7cb690db-dc8e-474b-95ca-220d51537829%40googlegroups.com.
